http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/ValueSavings/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide'.)

This interactive helps students to understand the power of accumulated savings and compound interest.

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/boilerRoom/index.html

(adapted from the 'Fair Play Guide'.)

Learn how to spot a scam artist trying to sell fraudulent stocks. Listen to a recorded phone conversation to hear how an unethical broker keeps his unsuspecting client hooked into the scam.

Royal Tread Tires

QDS Labratory

Investment Instructions

Online Investing

Levels of Risk

Your Investment Advisor

Educators in schools today share the responsibility for students' interpersonal learning and career planning. More than ever, it has become critically important for teachers from all disciplines to know and understand the changing nature of work, to outline for students the diverse range of career options, and highlight related skills and training programs. This resource page has been developed with the specific aim to support you, the classroom teacher, in learning more about the opportunities available to your students in the field of business. With these supports, it is hoped that you will encourage your students to learn about the kinds of business related opportunities available to them.

In an effort to encourage students to become more astute consumers, the Ontario government has produced a free teaching resource for all secondary school teachers to use in their classrooms. Many of the activities in the package can be adapted to the junior and intermediate level. Below is an outline of the topics covered in their resource package.

What topics are covered?

Module 1.	The Business Practices Act - consumer rights and responsibilities
Module 2.	To purchase or not to purchase - contracts, impulse buying, sales and bargains
Module 3.	Feeding the piggy bank - budgeting, credit and debit cards, collection agencies, credit repair
Module 4.	When you want your money back - refunds, exchanges and warranties
Module 5.	Navigating roadblocks on the information highway - protecting your rights online
Module 6.	Knock Knock. Who's there? - door-to-door sales, unsolicited goods, canceling contracts
Module 7.	In need. Indeed - loan brokers and telemarketing fraud
Module 8.	Exercising your rights - prepaying for services such as fitness and modeling contracts

Note: Click on this link to order your personal copy of the Consumer Protection Resource:
http://www.cbs.gov.on.ca/mcbs/english/5YNR8S.htm

This tool provides an opportunity for students to think critically about issues and concepts they are working with in a given course of study. Partners share one computer terminal and are asked to type opinions and ideas into the template provided. Suggested topics and background reading are provided. Teachers and students are also encouraged to develop and submit their own questions and controversial statements for use in this debate forum.

General Business Topics

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/Debate_GenBusiness/debate.html

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/Debate_QuotesBusiness/debate.html

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/Debate_Accounting/debate.html

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResoures/DynamicGraph/DynamicChart.html

Use this Dynamic Graph to enter data into either a pie, line or bar graph and have students print them out to compare results.

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/Cheques/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

This interactive will support an understanding of how cheques can be used. Geared to the intermediate level, this learning tool allows students to identify the features of cheques and to investigate the role financial institutions play in the transference of funds. Students will also examine the benefits and risks associated with the use of this form of currency.

Financial Jeopardy 1
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/Jeopardy/FinalJeopardy.html

Financial Jeopardy 2
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/Jeopardy2/FinalJeopardy.html

Financial Jeopardy - Credit Cards
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/jeopardy_Visa/index.html

We have developed two Financial Jeopardy games for you to play online. The questions are adapted from content in the Investor Education "Fair Play" and "Taking Stock In Your Future" -Intermediate and Senior curriculum documents.

Available for download is this Jeopardy resource from MarathonMuse.com
This program can be customized and used with your class.

Beginner's Formula Builder
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/formulas/index.html

Advanced Formula Builder
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/formulas/formulasAdvanced.html

Designed to assist the learner in both recognizing and actively constructing financial formulas, this tool provides an opportunity for students to reinforce knowledge and recognition of core elements needed in financial math.

Fraud Bingo
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/Bingo_Fraud/index.html

Play bingo and answer the questions to see if you can spot a fraud.

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/historyMoney/moneytimeline.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

Take students on a tour around the world to learn about the development of money from coin to credit card. For intermediate and senior students this could lead to some fun discussion and activities relating to the topic of inflation.

Lesson Plan

Teacher's Lesson Plan

Student Handout

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/StockMarkets/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

'How Stock Markets Work?' is a straight forward explanation of the stock market from placing an order to the purchase.

Flash File: http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/StockMarkets/StockMarketsRead.html

HTML file: http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/StockMarkets/readingStocks/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

'How to Read a Stock Page' interprets the symbols found in a stock listing from the newspaper.

Investor Education Fund - Teachers' Corner

Click here to hear an interview with Paul Bates, former OSC Commissioner, talk about the OSC and the IE Fund.

Cyber Scams
In this activity, students will complete an activity that allows them to learn more about scams on the Internet.

Scavenger Hunt
In this activity, students are asked to learn more about the Investor Education website. They will also be learning more about their own vulnerability to fraud.

Online resources for personal budgeting and finance

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/SavingBudgeting/saveBudgeting.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

This Flash presentation gives an overview of saving and budgeting. There is also a printable file for students to complete to help them develop strategies to achieve their financial goals.

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interactives/salesDiscounts/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

This interactive provides an opportunity for students to learn how sales and discounts can save them money. By using the internet to research the cost of items for a disaster relief kit, students have the chance to practice shopping within a budget. Students may want to apply the skills they have acquired by initiating fundraising activities within their school to purchase these items for those in need.

In an effort to bring real-world investing experience into elementary and secondary classrooms, educators in Ontario today have been searching out activities that both engage and immerse students in financial realities. Many teachers are using stock market challenges to assist their students in understanding the principles of investment.

"Creating an Investment Portfolio" is a project-based co-operative unit where students work in small groups to build and present an investment portfolio for a fictional client. In order to achieve this goal, a series of lessons and activities have been created to support both teachers and their students through each of the stages of this learning process. Click on the link below to access all of the materials.

Creating an Investment Portfolio
http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/stockMarketChallenge/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Senior Guide')

You can view the entire unit online, print lessons from the website or print the entire package in PDF format from the links below. The Teacher Package contains all handouts for the students as well as teaching tips and exemplars.

Teacher Package pdf (2.01 Mb)	Student Package pdf (1.77 Mb)
Right click (option click for MAC) and 'save target as' to save files to your hard drive.

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/interacitves/TaxesTips/index.html

(adapted from the 'Taking Stock in Your Future Intermediate Guide')

Learn about taxes and tips from other students in this interactive and then practice the calculations in this online restaurant.

Stock Market Challenges

Venture Project

Creative Business Classroom

http://www.edu.uwo.ca/TeacherResources/WebResources.html